September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... developing within Australia for more than a decade - that the legislation administered by the department, namely the Space Activities Act 1998 and its subordinate legislation, is not adapted to providing “the right conditions for entrepreneurs and...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
...as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Continued maintenance of these stations has contributed to the evolution of Australia’s role in international space activities. The 1960s were also defi ned by the Australian government’s ratifi cation of the 1967 Outer...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... debris. First, the principle of non-intervention, as part of general international law, applies to outer space activities in virtue of Article III of the Outer Space Treaty (OST). What is more, according to sentence one of Article VIII of the OST...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... and expand globally in the coming years. There are serious and feasible plans for a range of proposed space activities, from launching constellations of thousands of small satellites and operation of transportation systems for safe and convenient...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... for successful colonisation. Values and principles Technological advancements and the lowering cost of space activities associated with the Space 2.0 revolution will give rise to novel and unanticipated human rights concerns, existent in an era...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... applications”. By comparison, this proposed definition can be contrasted with the definition of ‘commercial’ space activities in the US National Space Policy, issued in 2010 under the Obama administration: “the term ‘commercial’, for the purposes...
